Finance Business Partner

The Finance Business Partner plays a central role in supporting senior management on financial aspects of our capital expenditure and change investment initiatives. Enabling the business to make well-informed, financially robust decisions that deliver on our corporate strategy. Acting as a trusted adviser to stakeholders, the role supports project teams in evaluating the financial feasibility of initiatives, building and reviewing financial assessment models, challenging underlying assumption sets and providing financial monitoring and control across the change portfolio. Key outcomes of the role include delivering high-quality budgeting, forecasting and monthly reporting, while identifying risks, opportunities and performance issues. The role also strengthens financial control and governance by ensuring funding requests and budgets are well managed, financial impacts are clearly understood and decisions align with corporate priorities and regulatory requirements. Through effective business partnering and continuous improvement, the role supports the assessment of major investments and the management of long-term budgets, helping to ensure they are monitored, controlled and accounted for appropriately in support of our strategic objectives. The role will report into the Head of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A). Please download a full job description to see a full person specification and role responsibilities. Flexible and agile working Everyone's personal situation is different. To make the most out of hybrid working we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):

• hybrid of office and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, as required)
• reduce or vary working hours
• reduce or vary the days worked
• work from home (or a different location)
• work compressed hours
• job share, The Finance and Strategic Sourcing (FSS) Directorate, led by the Chief Financial Officer and their leadership team, is made up of three distinct teams:
• Finance
• Commercial Management
• Procurement
Within the Finance team there are multiple disciplines including the core financial control activities for which this role would be responsible. It is an exciting time to join the Finance function as the CFO is looking to make a significant amount of change and enhancement in each of the areas but also looking for synergies and alignment across the Directorate.